Enclosure No.3,
Extract from the liong Kong Daily Press
of 5.1.27.
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CHANG TSO LIN'S FOREIGN
POLICY.
TREATIES TO GO GRADUALLY.
THE BOLShevist menace.
Since his elevation to the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Ankuo- chun Marshal Chang Tso Lin has lost few opportunities of proclaim- ing his anti-Red policy and desire to sweep Russian influence out of China.
Recently in the course of an interview with a European journ- alist, Mr. Frank Hedges, of the Japan Advertiser, the veteran Governor-General of Manchuria made the following pronouncements on his foreign policy. Referring to General Chiang Kai Shek's inter- view with the Associated Press, he said:
My own policy is equally de- finite, and I have no hesitancy in stating it. Immediate abolition of China's foreign treaties is im- practical and unwise. The treaties must go, but we must advance step by step, working out the definite programme in friendly conference with the Powers concerned. The Washington Conference laid the basis for such a programme, and we must go back to that basis and proceed therefrom."
"Russian Bolshevism is a plague," he said, "and other Powers are bound to be infected if China is overcome with it. Do they really understand this? Russia hates the United States, Japan and Great Britain, but she has made little headway there, and so turned to China in order to attack not only China but these Powers also in an indirect way. China needs your help in combatting this common evil." Marshal Chang added that he did not mean help in the form of armed troops, of course, but strong moral support and perhaps financial.
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Yurin, Borodin, Joffe, Kara- khan--each of the Soviet emissaries to China came to me first of all
and sought to get my co-operation, but I refused, foreseeing just such a situation as has now arisen in the South. They were then forced to turn elsewhere, and they met with a warm reception in Canton,
"The Southerners call themselves 'patriots,' but we are the true patriots who are combatting this Bolshevist Russian invasion of our fatherland.
"I may not succeed in ending it, but I shall strive to do so as long as I live."